On 16 March 2024, I sat down to chat with New York Times technology reporter Cade Metz! In part of our conversation, transcribed below, we discussed his February 2021 article "Silicon Valley's Safe Space", covering Scott Alexander's Slate Star Codex blog and the surrounding community.

The transcript has been significantly edited for clarity. (It turns out that real-time conversation transcribed completely verbatim is full of filler words, false starts, crosstalk, "uh huh"s, "yeah"s, pauses while one party picks up their coffee order, &c. that do not seem particularly substantive.)

ZMD: I actually have some questions for you.

CM: Great, let's start with that.

ZMD: They're critical questions, but one of the secret-lore-of-rationality things is that a lot of people think criticism is bad, because if someone criticizes you, it hurts your reputation. But I think criticism is good, because if I write a bad blog [...]

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First published:
March 26th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oYnwTuxySiaZYDrur/my-interview-with-cade-metz-on-his-reporting-about-slate

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“My Interview With Cade Metz on His Reporting About Slate Star Codex” by Zack_M_Davis

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“My Interview With Cade Metz on His Reporting About Slate Star Codex” by Zack_M_Davis